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City Lights of Australia, or Not

What are those lights in the Outback?

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story City Lights of Australia, or Not.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Robert Simmon, using Suomi NPP VIIRS data provided by Chris Elvidge (NOAA National Geophysical Data Center); MODIS Active Fire & Burned Area Products; and urban data from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment. Suomi NPP is the result of a partnership between NASA, NOAA, and the Department of Defense. Caption by Michael Carlowicz.

Published December 20, 2012
Data acquired April 18 - October 23, 2012

Source:: Suomi NPP > VIIRS

Collection:: Earth at Night